Photo hike

I didn't want to tarnish my fun wedding dress story with the adventure that happened directly afterward. But the short story is that I had a flat tire just after dropping my sister off at her apartment. I had to be towed by AAA, and I had a friend come pick me up.

On Sunday morning, because I didn't have my car, the same friend and I met up with another Amanda at the Forest Ecology Reserve nearby for a photo hike. My friend and I are not very well educated on the operation of our little digital cameras, but the other Amanda (A. Mo for short) is a budding photographer in her own right. So, A. Mo took us to this nice little nature walk and taught us the ins and outs of our cameras as well as rules of photography that would almost guarantee beautiful photos.

I uploaded my photos (uncropped or edited) on Facebook for perusal.

One of the rules that really stuck with me was that we should make the camera see what we see. Keeping that rule in mind, I was able to take much more artistic photographs than I ever have. I'd like to take them to Walgreens for development and then mount them on matboard or something likewise cheap and easy (but that looks nice) and put them in my office. My office has a lot of wall decorations, but many of the things are old and left over from my time here as a Master's student. I would like to throw some of this stuff away (along with their memories and connotations) and start afresh with nicer, calmer images.